FI17243

Request

  • The total sum spent on temporary accommodation by the council for each of the financial years (1 April to 31 March): 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26
  • The number of households in temporary accommodation on 31 March 2024, 2025 and 2026. Count any household that the council has placed and is funding, whether that is within the borough or not.
    • How many of those households included children for each year
      • For 2026, How many households including children were housed in B&Bs
      • For 2026, How many households including children were housed in B&Bs for longer than six weeks
    • For 2026, the three longest times that a household on that list had been in temporary accommodation
  • The number of households on the council’s waiting list for long-term social housing as of 31 March 2026
    • The three longest times that a household on that list had been waiting

Response

  • As follows:

Year

Total net TA expenditure

2020/21

£832,049

2021/22

£900,381

2022/23

£1,147,946

2023/24

£1,809,686

2024/25

£2,663,451

2025/26

£2,412,403
  • As follows:

Date

Total households in TA

Of which, households with children

31/03/2024

321

179

31/03/2025

339

176

30/03/2026

328

147
    • Zero
    • Zero
  • As at 31/3/26 the three longest TA start dates were October 2022/April 2023/August 2023.
  • 1944

    • As at 31/3/26 the three longest housing applications were April 1976/June 1984/November 1985. All three are in Band D to reflect that the applicants are adequately housed and therefore have no housing need.